information was evolving so rapidly. it was out of pure luck that i happened to pull into the right location, which was just south. the road that you see here just north of us. it was just south of the building where this tragedy took place. as i was looking and seeing all of the activity and trying to assess what was happening, i was informed that there was that that was the location where this was happening. and i was asking for officers to respond as quickly as possible because we had every belief at that time that we had people still actively being shot inside of the building. my goal was to assemble an entry team and enter into the building to engage the active shooter. this mindset and this type of training became indoctrinated in us after the columbine incident, and that was the goal, that we wanted to get in there and we wanted to stop any further innocent people from being injured and possibly killed.
chief of police. i m going to talk briefly about something that came up overnight. there s some things that went out on social media bringing some concern to the area. people talking about online about cells and law enforcement not sharing information and a potential threat at a movie theater or something of that nature. i saw at least one of the tweets. i don t know how much you re aware of, but. i want to address that right now. on monday night, tuesday morning before the incident, so november 30th, december 1st, right around midnight, 1:00 in the morning, there was an incident at the cinema in downtown san bernardino. what that case was is a that a gentleman that was described as appearing to be mentally dist b disturbed spoke to the security
they have been opportunistic. they sort of waited a couple days, which tells us something. if this was something planned by isis, they probably would respond immediately after the incident took place. now that there s news that one of the two terrorists suspected terrorists pledged allegiance to isis, now you have this media arm jump iing on tha news. that s consistent with isis behavior. al qaeda, which is sort of terrorism sort of 1.0, if you like, they were specific about how you could claim to be part of al qaeda. you have to go. to one of those places to train in a camp there. you had to conduct an operation that was approved from headquarters by someone higher up the chain of command and you got sent back to the country where you were going to do the attack. that s the only way to claim it. isis will do all of those
for it, it is something you re never actually prepared for. my goal was to assemble an entry team and enter into the building to engage the active shooter. this mind set and this type of training became indoctrinated in us after the columbine incident and that was the goal. as we made our way around to the east side, it was immediately evident that the reports that we were getting were 100% true. there were victims who were clearly obviously deceased outside of the conference room, and i relayed that information to the other responding officers and again requested assistance. it was unspeakable the carnage that we were seeing, the number of people who were injured and unfortunately already dead, and the pure panic on the face of those individuals that were still in need, and needing to be
walk around and choose to not help people who were hurt and who were calling out for help and who needed help. but they were trained. he s actually cited the columbine incident specifically. he said they were trained after that incident that what you need to do is not attend to the victims there. you need to find the threat and stop the threat. he said they believed at that time when they entered the scene that there were still according to reports between one and three shooters still inside. he said he had heard reports that there had been assailants who potentially left the scene in a black suv, they had heard those responses but he didn t know especially because there might have been multiple assailants if some people who were still inside who were the bad actors, the people who had caused this event. he said knowing that they had to walk past people who were hurt, people who were wounded in order to try to clear the scene, in order to try to find out fw the shooters were still ther